This Is The Reason Most People Get Stuck In Mediocrity
The reason most people get stuck in mediocrity is because they refuse to fail. The reason people refuse to fail is because they associate failure with defeat. Their fear of defeat paralyzes them to the point that they won’t move forward. People are not finished when...
5 Reasons You Need To Dump Your Loser Friends
High school was not easy for me. I never cared for the teenage wasteland parties. An exciting Friday night in my little Wyoming town was to drag main and turn up the volume on our car radios. Girls got married and guys got drunk. I wanted to be somewhere else. I...
5 Surprising Reasons You Need To Listen To Your Anger
I sat and listened to an elderly couple tell me how they’d been approached by a financial advisor who persuaded them to invest their life savings in a Ponzi scheme guaranteed to produce a 50% return on investment within 6 months. I was the FBI agent they contacted...
5 Effective Ways To Overcome Setbacks In Life
I had been assigned to my first FBI field office for less than one year when I was unexpectedly transferred across the country and given 30 days to report to my new office. The FBI likes to see how new agents overcome setbacks in their personal life and survive...
Here Are The Best Ways To Develop Self Awareness
FBI agents who work undercover are given a series of psychological tests to determine their level of self awareness. Self awareness enables agents to predict their responses when confronted with unexpected situations that can accompany undercover work. The...
4 Things You Need To Know If You Want To Be Successful In Life
Both parents and teachers extol the virtue of good grades if you want to be successful in business and life. The premise goes something like this: good grades mean you’re smarter and will be offered better career opportunities. If you want to be successful in life,...
This Is The Best Way You Can Become An Expert
Before becoming an FBI agent, I thought I could become successful by simply working hard. It got me through school with good grades and into my first job as a fashion buyer. My thinking shifted, however, when I met my first FBI firearms instructor. He barked out...
This Is The Best Way To Detect Lack Of Integrity In Others
Integrity is a word that we hear almost every day but we seldom take the time to think about it. Integrity is similar to ethics, honesty, and trustworthiness—they are a moral code of values that affect our behavior. Integrity is about doing the right thing in every...
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